Hi John
In respect of a Press release.
The people of Ireland have been conned long enough by both Central and Local Government. The time for change is now. No more clichés and empty promises. We must recognise that our politics is fundamentally corrupt. Party politicians work for the party, they belong to. The parties pay their election expenses, dish out appointments and Ministerial posts. The parties appoint the board of RTE and that is why independents such as myself have little or no voice in Irish media. Party Politicians are loyal to their party, they do as they are told, they speak and vote as they are told. This is the first and most fundamental corruption within our politics. Politicians are beholden to their Parties and to those who hold influence over the parties. After the election they may as well stay at home. All of the parties are correct in that none of them should be in government. All of them have been in government and ALL of them have failed us.
The first step towards REAL change requires us as a people to recognise that our Democracy does not work in its present form, that it is corrupted. I believe that Ireland should be the most socially, environmentally and technologically progressive nation in Europe. We own almost a quarter of the EU's oceans. We have a beautiful country and a proud intellectual and cultural heritage. We are a nation of wasted opportunity. We hand over our wealth and our independence to Party Politics, and they sell it, and divide it amongst their friends and sponsors. As a nation we are deprived of our dignity and our independence, we crawl behind the nations of Europe, and yet it is the Irish who have arguably made the greatest contribution to the intellect and literature of western civilisation.
We need to stand on our feet and be proud of who we are. We need to end the refuelling of war planes in Shannon and reclaim our dignity as a nation that stands for something; for peace, for the environment and an end to war. We need to take ownership of our identity. We must stand up for ourselves, we need to take the opportunity that our heritage, our wealth and our ingenuity affords us, and apply a vision that will create the finest education system, agriculture, justice and health service within Europe.
We cannot do this as long as we remain corrupted by party politics. As long as politicians vote for their parties and not for the people whom they supposedly represent. We have no democracy, only a sham. A sham democracy and a sham nation.
Let us begin to stand up and take ownership of our independence, to do so we must elect independents. This is the first step towards real change.
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